agree with jeff green for high risk high reward free agents. can someone remember what happens if he has to retire due to heart problems? insurance pays him and we get the cap back? part of the cap? i can't remember, vaguely remember the darius miles situation.

agree with jeff green for high risk high reward free agents. can someone remember what happens if he has to retire due to heart problems? insurance pays him and we get the cap back? part of the cap? i can't remember, vaguely remember the darius miles situation.

That depends upon what you work out with an insurance company. Amare Stoudemire's contract is completely uninsured, because no one would put the money up to cover his health risks. But I believe the team could get the cap hit waved, provided he played no part in a season (for your team or anyone else's). I think Portland had to pay keep Darius' contract for just that reason -- Memphis picked him up for peanuts after the trade deadline, and Portand was on the hook for $8 or $9 million on their cap.

High risk: Inject Alabi with Barry Bonds roids.
High reward: He doesn't get caught and becomes the next Dikembe.

He'd still need to learn how to play basketball though. Right now all you've got is a tall guy with big muscles.. though he might be employee of the month at Walmart for lifting heavy objects from tall shelves.

Move whatever it takes to do a deal with Orlando for Dwight's last year on his current deal (Bargs, Calderon, 2012 first, 2014 first, Derozan, etc.). Move Valnciunas and whatever else you need to for a perimeter scorer (Batum, Gay, Granger, etc.). Sign Steve Nash. Fill in blanks in roster with whatever detritus you can find. The current roster has plenty of that anyway.

Best case scenario, catch lightning in a bottle and have a shot at the ECF. Worst case scenario: Howard sulks or won't play, Nash gets hurt, stuck with bad contract on a mediocre wing. End up with terrible team and no first rounders for couple years.